VMware recently bought SpringSource. We all know who VMware is, but you may not know who SpringSource is. SpringSource coins themselves as “The Enterprise Java Cloud”. Looking closer, SpringSource is a Java development platform. Actually, about half of new software development using the Java language is done using SrpingSource’s tools.

So, how does SpringSource fit in to the VMware ecosystem? That’s a good question. It will be interesting to see how VMware positions this. Oh yeah - VMware paid $420 million ($362 in cash and %58 million in stock and options) for SpringSource! That is almost on the same scale of the $500 million Citrix paid for XenSource.

Read more about the acquisition here…

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